Classroom in a book

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Set the Amount to Decolor slider to 100 percent. This will decolor everything 
except the color you chose with the eyedropper.
14
Set the Tolerance slider to about 35 percent.
15
Render and play the clip to see the effect. The whole scene should be black and 
white, with the exception of the yellow torch flame.

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LESSON 9
Adding Video Effects
Creating custom presets
Adobe Premiere Pro allows you to save your favorite effect settings to your own 
custom preset so you don’t have to re-create the settings every time. A preset may 
contain a single effect or multiple effects. Presets can be exported so you can share 
them with other editors, and of course you can import presets that have been 
exported from Adobe Premiere Pro.
In this exercise, you’ll create a combination of effects and then save them as a cus-
tom preset:
1
Open Lesson 09-5.prproj.
2
Play the Timeline, and note that the title Sir Drake is just a static title. You will 
animate it like you were challenged to try on your own earlier in the lesson as 
extra credit on page 173.
3
Drag the Basic 3D filter from the Perspective bin to the title clip. Set a keyframe 
at the beginning of the clip with Swivel set to –25. Set an end keyframe with 
Swivel set to 25.
4
Drag the Lens Flare filter to the title clip. Set a keyframe at the beginning of the 
clip with Flare Center set to 20, 192. Set an end keyframe with Flare Center set 
to 700, 192.
5
Drag the Gaussian Blur filter to the title clip Sir Drake. Set a keyframe at the 
beginning of the clip with Blurriness set to 300. Set a second keyframe about 
one second in with Blurriness set to 0. Set a third keyframe about one second 
from the end with Blurriness set to 0, and finally set the end keyframe with 
Blurriness set to 700.
6
Play the clip. The title swivels slightly, the lens flare travels across the letters, 
and the whole title blurs in and out of existence. If you have problems setting up 
these filters, click the Finished sequence to see the completed effect.
Now that the combination of effects is working just how you want it to, you will 
save the combination of three effects as a single custom preset so you can use it 
again later.